Modern development environment on dated RHEL

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>:
> Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL 4.7
> installed on them.
> However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still
> have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development
> tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a stable release from
> the last year seems to me a desirable goal).
> We mostly need user-space software (editors, scripting environment, etc.).
> What's the best method to
>
> Use reasonably new user-space software on RHEL 4.7
> Not to break too much the entire RHEL echosystem, or at least provide to
> ourselves a clear way to upgrade the foreign packages we'll install.
>
> I'm not really familiar with managing Red-Hat distribution, so any advice
> will be welcomed.

Here is one: EPEL - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Just grab the yum repo details and go.

Note though that you may find that you need to update half the system,
including compilers, basic libraries like glibc, whatever depends on
glibc version, etc. This may not be  a problem, or it may be,
depending on what the limitations imposed by the company are.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | oleg at goldshmidt.org